The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Coverage of Japanese technology companies, corporate AI adoption, enterprise innovation, and artificial intelligence developments in Japan.
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined Japan-based Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor, where he will help guide research into recursive self-improvement and world models.
India’s Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is leading the country’s largest-ever business delegation of over 200 representatives to Japan from August 24. The four-day visit covering Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka prioritises semiconductors, artificial intelligence, clean energy and advanced manufacturing to deepen economic ties.
Japan is offering ¥600 million in prize money through GENIAC-PRIZE 2026 to organizations demonstrating how AI can help address labour shortages among essential workers across sectors including healthcare, logistics, agriculture and public services.
The new AI company will be a collaboration of eight major Japanese companies including SoftBank, NEC, Honda and Sony
